Booking Julia:

If you are interested in booking Julia for an appearance or event, here’s what you should know:

Julia can do many things!

--Performance poetry: as a spoken word artist, Julia has up to an hour’s worth of material that she can perform at the drop of a hat. Most of her pieces center on her experiences growing up and coming out as trans, the complexities of current trans/queer identity and politics, and the differences she has experienced being treated as a woman and man, as straight and queer, and as trans and non-trans, at different points in her life. If you are unfamiliar with what “performance poetry” or “spoken word” entails, you can watch web movies of a few of Julia’s performances on her audio-visual page.

--Book readings: Julia is always happy to read excerpts from, and answer questions about, her new book, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. She also regularly gives a talk entitled “Transsexual and Trans Feminine Perspectives on Sexism” in which she discusses some of the main ideas covered in Whipping Girl.

--Presentations and workshops: Julia has given all sorts of presentations over the years: she has conducted Transgender 101 workshops for high school and college classes, given speeches on trans politics at numerous events, given lectures on more advance topics (trans women’s issues, identity and gender binaries) for college-level gender studies courses, and she has been a panelist and/or has presented papers at philosophy-, psychology-, queer-, trans- and women’s studies-themed conferences. While Julia can speak on a wide variety of topics, the one’s for which she is most known (and which she most enjoys speaking about) are:
  • MTF-specific issues/how to be an ally to trans women
  • Media depictions of trans people and transgenderism
  • The sexualization of trans femaleness and trans femininity
  • Cissexism (i.e., the institutional marginalization of transsexuals)
  • Trans-misogyny (i.e., sexism that specifically targets trans women and others on the MTF spectrum)
  • The exclusion and marginalization of trans women within feminism and queer women’s communities
  • Gender privileges and gender entitlement
  • Challenging sexist interpretations of femininity
  • Differentiating between the way we experience our own gender and the way we perceive and interpret gender in others
  • Reconciling biological and social perspectives of gender
  • The intersection of feminism, transgender, and queer politics
  • Transsexual etiology and debunking “autogynephilia”
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(for a more thorough list of workshops, classes, conferences, panels and presentations Julia has given, please click here.)

Once you’ve decided what you are interested in booking Julia for, then please contact her by email at

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